[IAUC] CBET 3966: 20140906 : SUPERNOVA 2014da IN NGC 128 = PSN J00291512+0251576
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Electronic Telegram No. 3966
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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SUPERNOVA 2014da IN NGC 128 = PSN J00291512+0251576
Further to CBET 3855, M. Kim, W. Zheng, and A. V. Filippenko, University
of California at Berkeley, report the LOSS discovery of a possible supernova
in NGC 128 on unfiltered KAIT images:
SN 2014 UT R.A. (2000.0) Decl. Mag. Offset
2014da Aug. 7.50 0 29 15.12 + 2 51 57.6 16.2 0".7 E, 7".2 N
A finding chart was posted by the discoverers at the following website URL:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~zwk/findingchart/PSN_J00291512+02515763.jpg. The
variable was designated PSN J00291512+0251576 when it was posted at the
Central Bureau's TOCP webpage and is here designated SN 2014da based on the
spectroscopic confirmation reported below. Additional CCD magnitudes for
2014da: July 26.49 UT, 17.3 (KAIT); 31.47, 16.2 (KAIT); Aug. 8.061, 15.6 (G.
Masi, P. Catalano, and P. Schmeer; remotely using a 43-cm telescope at
Ceccano, Italy; position end figures 15s.13, 57".5); 8.796, 15.4 (J.
Brimacombe, Cairns, Australia; remotely using a 41-cm RCOS telescope + U9000
camera + luminance filter at the Warrumbungle Observatory, Siding Spring;
position end figures 15s.12, 57".8). Brimacombe posted his images at
website URL https://www.flickr.com/photos/43846774@N02/14678067687/. Masi
et al. add that several co-added low-resolution spectrograms of 2014da,
obtained Aug. 8.08 with a 36-cm telescope (+ 100 lines/mm grating; dispersion
3.45 nm/pixel) show Si II absorption around 621 nm, suggesting that this is a
type-Ia supernova; assuming a recessional velocity of 4241 km/s for the
host galaxy (NGC 128; via NED), an expansion velocity of about 11000 km/s is
derived from the minimum of the Si II 635-nm line.
W. Zheng, I. Shivvers, H. Yuk, K. I. Clubb, and A. V. Filippenko,
University of California, Berkeley, report that inspection of a CCD
spectrogram (range 350-1000 nm), obtained on Aug. 26.334 UT with the Shane
3-m reflector (+ Kast spectrograph) at Lick Observatory, shows that PSN
J00291512+0251576 = SN 2014da is a type-Ia supernova. Cross-correlation with
a library of supernova spectra using the "SuperNova Identification" code
(SNID; Blondin and Tonry 2007, Ap.J. 666, 1024) indicates a similarity with a
few 1991bg-like supernovae and a few normal type-Ia supernovae about 3-4 weeks
after maximum light. However, the peak absolute magnitude of about -17.5
(adopting redshift z = 0.0141 and Galactic extinction A_R around 0.06 mag)
suggests a subluminous type-Ia supernova, consistent with the 1991bg-like
classification.
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2014 September 6 (CBET 3966) Daniel W. E. Green
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